Is Your Viewfinder Right Side Up?

How do you trust a brain that doesn't know which way is down? 

Has something ever thrown you for a loop? Like shit, here's this new and stunning situation I find myself in. And f*** if I know how to handle it. It literally rocks your world, so that you're seeing things aslant. Pineapples I'm uncomfortable... I'm not into this. But then you start thinking about it. Some time passes and that initial wtf?!?! is resolved into something you can wrap your mind around. Your vision settles into something a bit more right side up.

I see weird shite all the time. I mean, just recently I saw a woman walking her dog in a stroller. Really, lady? Really?! Your dog may be small but it has legs, isn't the point of walking the dog? To let it walk?  Anyway, it was weird. But! What if everyone walked their dogs in strollers? Every time you saw someone walking their dog in a stroller, it wouldn't seem weird. Because you've seen it before. I'm not sure I could ever accept that as right side up; however, that is truly weird shite and not currently the point. 

I'm talking about situations. In my 21 years I've been proposed to by 4 guys only halfway serious - um Thank God- and once in a completely serious fashion. Like dead ass "will you marry me" my initial reaction? Nooo pineapples! Stop. I don't want to. But then we kept talking about it-- the benefits to both of us, the cons as it were. And the idea settled in my mind. It had only been a few days but I was going to do it. How did I ever not think this whole marriage thing was a great idea? I mean, I kind of sort of love him.... Enough that we could make it work, anyway. For about a month my world right side up was in this idiotic plan to get married. (don't judge me, you don't know my life...)

We're an adaptable race. Evolution, survival of the fittest and all that.  There's the norm and then there's the mutation. But after a while that which was a mutation, becomes the norm. Genetically this takes years...centuries...eras? Idk I'm not an anthropologist, but it only takes your brain 3 days to adapt to what you see in the world around you. It took me about three days to decide that getting married (ew...marriage) was a great idea. And it took me three days after my mom freaked, to realize that it really wasn't. I had to put my life back in the right perspective. After I refocused, I couldn't go through with it.

Good thing too, because if I had, I wouldn't be debating the pros and cons of becoming someone else's girlfriend. It took me much longer to get my head around that idea -- which is more of a personal problem than anything to do with adapting-- You want me to be your what? Can we not use that g word...please? But I'm coming around, I guess. I don't cringe anymore when he says girlfriend. Or anything else possessive. I mean my world is still rocking, it probably won't settle until I make a decision one way or the other. I'm working on it. (shut up! you still don't know my life) 

So it takes your brain 3 days to adapt. 3 days to turn the world right side up again. Think on that the next time someone makes your world flip upside down. Sooner rather than later you'll be right side up again.

 the rest is still UNwritten...